Missing out on the Earth-Romulan War on Star Trek: Enterprise sucks

Star Trek: Enterprise nearly got to tell the story of the Earth-Romulan War.

Star Trek: Enterprise’s fifth season would’ve seen a lot of cool stuff. Jeffery Combs would’ve been added to the cast full-time as Shran, the beginning days of the United Federation of Planets would take shape and the beginning of the Earth-Romulan War was supposed to start.

Unfortunately, when Enterprise was canceled, and the studios at Paramount passed on doing any movies with the Voyager or Enterprise casts, the hopes of seeing the Earth-Romulan War ever come to screens in any meaningful way ended.

Sadly, if we ever do get the story arc now, it’ll feel less than, and ScreenRant is right to call this debacle a missed opportunity, as it was. This is the type of storyline that energizes shows. But, just because the television and film side of Star Trek dropped the ball, doesn’t mean that everyone did.

There is a Star Trek book series that covers the Earth-Romulan War

The Earth-Romulan War may not have made it to the screen, but the story was still told. Pock Books released a two-part book series that featured the six-year war between Earth and the Romulans.

The two books are called Beneath the Raptor’s Wing and To Brave the Storm and were both written by Michael A. Martin. They continue on the book narrative from previous books; The Good That Men Do, and The Kobayashi Maru. Both of those are also written by Martin, as well as Andy Mangels.

So if you’re looking to scratch the itch for the Earth-Romulan War, there are alternatives out there that can help satiate the hunger for missing context. Hopefully, the story also gets re-told in a graphic novel by IDW, as that would be an incredible way to continue on the adventures of Jonathan Archer and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.